Pros
Employee friendly, meaningful work and good people. Approachable management and strong foundation. Some really good middle managers of late. Good pay and good work-life balance. Some managers have been keeping an eye out on teams to ensure they don't burn out during remote work based long screen time. Peace of mind around job security in such volatile times.
Cons
The business is run by consultants who operate like a typical consultant led client project. 6-8 months to work on a strategy - 4-6 months to execute the strategy. The market moves on by then and we don't see much success. What's really growing the business is still the strong foundation laid during the earlier engineering/product led days and not the new initiatives. Each strategic initiative becomes a struggle and there are easier ways to do it. I REALLY wish we moved on from a consultant mindset to a product mindset.